Cyclists have run amok in the new ‘pedestrian-only’ zone at Oxford Street on the first day of Sadiq Khan‘s traffic-free scheme.
The London Mayor hailed the move to pedestrianise the busy shopping hub as ‘a truly momentous occasion for the capital’ – but cyclists have been flouting the new rules by sailing past the obstructive green bollards and signs installed overnight.
Cars, buses, taxis, bikes and other vehicles are now banned from almost a kilometre of the central London road between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street. They will instead be funnelled on to surrounding routes.
A team of security guards stationed at the entrance were trying to wave
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